Historypin Event

Historypin Event

In May 2016 The Italian Cinema Audiences team carried out a pilot project tested at the Istituto Comprensivo Guido Milanesi school in Rome, involving schoolchildren aged thirteen years and a group of 1950s Roman cinema-goers. As part of this project, schoolchildren helped elderly audiences to map their cinema-going memories in 1950s Rome using Historypin, a crowdsourcing platform. The team has created a Historypin collection on cinema-going in Rome in the 1950s, where users can upload and map their memories. The aim of this project is to enable interpersonal digital encounters between older people and schoolchildren, thereby empowering the older generation to share ownership of their own cultural history.